Author: The Tech Guy
Amazon’s new “Help Me Decide” feature uses AI to analyze your shopping behavior and recommend a productThe feature is available in the U.S. on mobile apps and browsersThe AI makes and explains its personalized suggestions using browsing history and customer reviewsAmazon wants to use AI to reduce the exhaustion online shopping can sometimes induce. The new Help Me Decide button, now appearing in the United States on mobile browsers and Amazon’s app, promises to cut to the chase and pick the ideal product for you to buy. No more infinite tab hopping through endless reviews.The button appears after you’ve been…
While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the industry's most secretive and valuable startups delivered a pointed challenge to that orthodoxy this week: The path forward isn't about training bigger — it's about learning better."I believe that the first superintelligence will be a superhuman learner," Rafael Rafailov, a reinforcement learning researcher at Thinking Machines Lab, told an audience at TED AI San Francisco on Tuesday. "It will be able to very efficiently figure out and adapt, propose its own theories,…
DeepSeek’s announced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) model compresses text-heavy data into images and reduces vision tokens per image by up to 20x while retaining 97% accuracy (10x compression) or ~60% at 20x. This outperforms competitors on efficiency-performance charts. arxiv – DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression We present DeepSeek-OCR as an initial investigation into the feasibility of compressing long contexts via optical 2D mapping. DeepSeek-OCR consists of two components: DeepEncoder and DeepSeek3B-MoE-A570M as the decoder. Specifically, DeepEncoder serves as the core engine, designed to maintain low activations under high-resolution input while achieving high compression ratios to ensure an optimal and manageable number…
Enlarge Image Chevrolet’s full-size Trail Boss balances a rugged exterior with the smart dashboard tech powered by Google. Antuan Goodwin/CNETThe 2022 Chevrolet Silverado Trail Boss is as brash a pickup as its name implies, what with its diesel engine, lifted suspension and meaty mud tires. However, this brawny brute is packed to the brim with brainy tech as well, including a massive infotainment overhaul powered by Google Assistant and Android. Like Excellent Google-powered tech Comfortable ride on and off`road Multiple engine options, including a diesel Don’t like No Super Cruise for Trail Bosses Louder, rougher ride than competing models Google…
SysInfoCap.exe is a data collection process part of HP’s software ecosystem, often linked to tools like HP Support Assistant. While legitimate, it is notorious for occasionally malfunctioning and consuming excessive GPU, CPU, and Memory resources, severely impacting system performance and causing freezes. In this post, we are going to see what you can do if […] This article SysInfoCap.exe High GPU, CPU Memory usage in Windows 11 first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.
Nothing introduced the Android 16-based Nothing OS 4.0 last month and released its first Open Beta for the Nothing Phone (3), Phone (2), Phone (2a), and Phone (2a) Plus earlier this month. The Nothing Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro were left out, but the Nothing OS 4.0 Open Beta is finally available for these smartphones. Nothing Phone (3a) Pro Nothing OS 4.0 Open Beta brings the new Nothing icon design to the Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro, as well as a “Stretch” Camera preset developed in partnership with photographer Jordan Hemingway. Nothing Phone (3a) Nothing says “this preset…
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded French AI startup Mistral launched its own Mistral AI Studio, a new production platform designed to help enterprises build, observe, and operationalize AI applications at scale atop Mistral's growing family of proprietary and open source large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models.It's an evolution of its legacy API and AI building platorm, "Le Platforme," initially launched in late 2023, and that brand name is being retired for…
Your phone buzzes at 6 a.m. It’s ChatGPT: “I see you’re traveling to New York this week. Based on your preferences, I’ve found three restaurants near your hotel. Would you like me to make a reservation?”You didn’t ask for this. The AI simply knew your plans from scanning your calendar and email and decided to help. Later, you mention to the chatbot needing flowers for your wife’s birthday. Within seconds, beautiful arrangements appear in the chat. You tap one: “Buy now.” Done. The flowers are ordered.This isn’t science fiction. On Sept. 29, 2025, OpenAI and payment processor Stripe launched the…
The small phone market may be down to its final embers, but a select few makers are still making compact flagships. It might be just a matter of time before all we have are huge phones, but for now let’s enjoy compact phones while there are still some around. This is the vivo X300, and it may just be a member of an even more exclusive group – the compact flagships that are actually available outside China. While vivo has not yet confirmed its exact plans the existence of a global ROM and the promises that the X300 series will…
I’m still in the early days of my adventures with Roku, as I’ve only recently started properly utilizing my smart television in the ways it was designed for. I’ve mentioned this, but I’ve been using my Xbox Series X for most of my streaming and all-purpose tech needs, which has meant mostly ignoring Roku. But I recently realized the error of my ways, thanks to discovering just how many apps and features Roku has that a console just can’t match up to. From underrated Roku applications that deserve far more love to features like a consolidated all-in-one watchlist that I…